nathaniel-branden Quotes About esteem

“Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.”

Source: Power of Self Esteem

“To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.”

Self Feelings Self Esteem Esteem Exposure Imposter Positive Self

Book:A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity

Source: A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity

“It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the virtues you have committed yourself to are so much against human nature that they cannot be practiced consistently? Be careful of what you accept as your code of morality. Think carefully about whether its tenets serve your life and well being. Exercise critical judgment. Realize how much is at stake-your life, your happiness, your self-esteem.”

“If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.”

Ifs Want Needs Feels Self Matter Faces Challenges Self Esteem Limits No Matter What Self Confidence Esteem Self Respect Assets Inadequate Unworthy Deficiency Assertive Self Trust

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.”

People Feels Self Home Levels Self Esteem Comfortable Esteem

Book:Power of Self Esteem

Source: Power of Self Esteem

“There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.”

“Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”

Self Motivational Self Esteem Esteem Reputation Acquire Self Respect Thrive Lack Of Self Confidence

Book:How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence

Source: How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence

“Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.”

Self Causes Self Esteem Expression Achievement Consequence Esteem Accomplishment Productive

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.”

Source: A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity

“Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.”

“To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.”

Knows Mind Self Self Esteem Confidence Essence Worthy Esteem

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.”

Ifs World Feels Self Opportunity Challenges Pleasure Achieve Self Esteem Inspire Pride Confidence Achievement Esteem Secure Empowering Realistic Opportunities And Challenges

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“As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.”

Way Self Faces Moving Grows Pleasure Talking Alive Self Esteem Projects Esteem Your Face Way Of Talking

Book:How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence

Source: How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence

“The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.”

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“The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.”

Needs Self Forget Self Esteem Higher Prove Stronger Esteem Urgent Reflecting Richness

Book:A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity

Source: A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity

“High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.”

People Self Trouble Self Esteem Picks Esteem Excess Knocked Down High Self Esteem

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?”

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.”

Self Desire Wealth Effort Self Esteem Integrity Longing Esteem

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.”

Inspirational War Self States Self Esteem Healthy Significant Esteem Characteristics Healthy Self Esteem

Book:How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence

Source: How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence

“Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.”

Self Force Powerful Self Esteem Esteem Self Respect Appropriate Requirements

Book:Power of Self Esteem

Source: Power of Self Esteem

“To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.”

Life Self Life Is Belief Moral Self Esteem Achievement Capacity Opposites Rewards Contrary Esteem Psychological Preserves Enjoyment Unusual Prerogative Contrary To Popular Belief

Book:The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology

Source: The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology

“Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.”

Needs Self Spiritual Self Esteem Profound Esteem Luxury Profound Spiritual

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.”

Self Culture Belief Self Esteem Expression Integrity Surrender Esteem Preserves Exception Conformity Heroic Self Expression Subculture

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“It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.”

Needs Self Hard Would Be Certain Names Poor Groups Self Esteem Esteem Perceive Inferiors

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“Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.”

Way Mind Self Facts Reality Choices Deals Self Esteem Honor Perception Consequence Esteem Psychological You Choose Register Dishonor

Book:Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external achievements. We admire achievements-in ourselves and others-and it is natural and appropriate for us to do so. But that is not the same thing as saying that our achievements are the measure or grounds of our self-esteem. The root of our self-esteem is not our achievements but those internally generated practices that, among other things, make it possible for us to achieve.”

Self Individual Natural Practice Achieve Self Esteem Essentials Achievement Roots Stress Admire Esteem Appropriate Measuring

Book:Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiven ess requires courage, no matter how high your self-esteem.”

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“The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.”

Self Lying Self Esteem Esteem

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“Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.”

Self Self Esteem Possibility Prove Self Worth Esteem Motive

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“I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them.”

Ifs Opinion Self Esteem Agree Esteem Respecting Others

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“Respect starts with ourselves.”

Self Esteem Esteem

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“Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.”

Self Fall Individual Self Esteem Acceptance Esteem Self Acceptance High Self Esteem

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“The practice of assertiveness: being authentic in our dealings with others; treating our values and persons with decent respect in social contexts; refusing to fake the reality of who we are or what we esteem in order to avoid disapproval; the willingness to stand up for ourselves and our ideas in appropriate ways in appropriate contexts.”

Source: The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life

“Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials.”

Important Life Is Fighting Self Esteem Highest Esteem Honour

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.”

Important Self Action Differences Self Esteem Judgment Lows Esteem About Yourself Success And Failure Low Self Esteem Passivity High Self Esteem

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by love rather than fear, by confidence rather than insecurity: these are the benchmarks of high self-esteem. The wish to avoid fear and pain is not the motive that drives the lives of highly evolved men and women; rather, it is the life force within them, thrusting toward its unique form of expression-the actualization of personal values.”

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.”

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

“If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.”

Ifs Knows Stills Self Might Suffering Greater Self Esteem Emotional Resilience Recovery Esteem Faster High Self Esteem Emotional Suffering

Book:Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality

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